Quote Originally Posted by FlyGuyOU
near as i can tell, people are most upset with 'the way we went to war', false pretenses and whatnot. would they feel better if some republican guards blew up a commuter plane? .
I think you are correct in this statement. It is, indeed, the way we got involved in the war to begin with that upsets me, personally, the most.

The chain of events starting with the September 11 attacks on US soil, then going on what, ultimately, has been largely a wild-goose chase in Afghanistan, to our current presence in Iraq, to what appears to be a new push to bring this war into Iran... to me, there is a failure of logic connecting all these things.

I'm still not convinced fully that the 9-11 attacks were simply the Taliban getting into world affairs on an unprecedented scale. Thus, I look with some skepticism on the stated reasons for being in Afghanistan... the cynic in me reminds me that the Taliban was notorious for refusing to allow construction of an oil pipeline that would connect the rich oil fields of what was once Northwestern Russia to a seaport. With them removed, these pipelines are suddenly a possibility, and who better to construct them than the subsidiaries of companies wholly owned by the country that controls an occupying army?

As for Saddam Hussein and his so-called weapons of mass destruction... of COURSE they could find some unnamed 'intelligence' sources who claimed to have seen them! Think 'stool pigeon' (some of you may be too young to be familiar with that term). I don't argue for one minute that Hussein's regime was one of terror and massive human rights violations, but again, where ARE those pesky WMDs, and why are we suddenly involved now, now that Afghanistan is wrested from the control of a faction opposed to a US/Western presence in their very strategically located country, when here at home we have violence and poverty enough, as highlighted by the tragedy of Katrina?

I view with profound skepticism the timing of all this.

And on another note, I find it difficult to make a comparison between the World Wars, fought for 'Libenstraum' and other manifestations of plain empire-building and control of land masses, while modern US involvement in war seems to have shifted from that, through wars of idealism [Commie prevention], to farily obscene shows of ECONOMIC imperialism.

Just my two cents on the matter.